Example sentences of "[vb past] it to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man drew it to the attention of a companion and , together , they lifted the strut of wood clear . |
| 2 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 3 | The manager of the branch concerned could not possibly pay the cheque , but , since the Ingard group has many small investors and its collapse would have wide repercussions , he at once referred it to the board . |
| 4 | I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer . |
| 5 | ‘ Lady Amelia , you admitted that you found Lady Eleanor 's corpse in her room and , together with these sweet sisters , moved it to the foot of the stairs to make her death appear an accident . |
| 6 | I smelled a sewage sort of smell during the night and another passenger reported it to the crew . |
| 7 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 8 | He did n't hesitate and straight away reported it to the referee . |
| 9 | I reported it to the shop , but there was nothing they could do . |
| 10 | The fisherman was so shocked that he let the body slip back into the water and , though he reported it to the police , no action was taken by them . |
| 11 | ‘ Dad , I found Froggy dead — murdered — reported it to the police , made my statement , and that 's it . ’ |
| 12 | However , the whole incident was witnessed by another driver who took a note of the car number and in turn , of course , reported it to the police and eventually Mrs was interviewed on the eleventh of August of this year she agreed that she was the driver at the time and she replied it 's okay , but if the little had stopped after the accident I would of sorted things out I could n't do anything after she ran off . |
| 13 | He also noticed a reduction in Miss T. 's awareness of what was going on around her and mentioned it to the nursing staff who told him that it was the effect of the drugs . |
| 14 | Several companies who had previously written ‘ in-house ’ for the designer changed it to the name of an individual ; some agencies changed the name of the individual to that of their agency . |
| 15 | Miller dedicated it to the Earl of Macclesfield , then President of the Royal Society and to the Fellows ‘ for the improving of natural knowledge ’ . |
| 16 | Each page was decorated with delicate filigree-like scrollwork in a range of dazzling colours : on one page lightly drawn angel figures , on another a priest sprinkling a shrouded corpse with holy water as he committed it to the grave . |
| 17 | Carl Glenn , a commission investigator , describing events in El Chorrillo , a poor , primarily Black neighbourhood located near the Panamanian Defense Force headquarters , where 10,000 were made homeless , said : US troops bombed the community , shelled it with heavy artillery , strafed it and finally burned it to the ground . |
| 18 | He and Buccleuch then went to Hector of Hardlaw 's house and burned it to the ground . |
| 19 | He took out the photograph which he always carried with him and compared it to the woman he had just seen . |
| 20 | She looked at herself , practised an attitude , widening her eyes and sucking in her cheeks , then another , chin up , head to one side , Madonna-like in pious ecstasy , then shaking her head to dismiss the bridal vision she had attempted , plucked the lace mat from her hair and added it to the pile with the others she had finished . |
| 21 | ‘ The exhibition , ’ she went on will probably revive interest in the period so we grabbed some of the stuff from our theatrical costumes shop up in Clifton and added it to the mixture of period we have here . |
| 22 | Once I had created the spray shape that I wanted , I tied the red ribbon that had accompanied the bouquet into a small flat bow , to minimise its lumpiness , and added it to the design . |
| 23 | When I got ashore I stole a small fishing boat and sailed it to the Delta . |
| 24 | During the last 300 years , doctors systematized it to the point that the only ‘ old-fashioned ’ step left was the cutting of a ligament . |
| 25 | He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse . |
| 26 | About one year ago I had a clear-out and consigned it to the bin so I can not help with the actual item but I still have copy of the magazine if it is needed . |
| 27 | The veal in the clingfilm had now thawed out so he consigned it to the wastebasket . |
| 28 | Until the second world war , the Berlin exchange was the most important on the Continent ; national division reduced it to the status of a small regional market . |
| 29 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 30 | In 1664 he disparked Clarendon Park , the last remnant of the royal forests in Wiltshire , and granted it to the Duke of Albermarle . |